364 WOODPECKER, 



27.— RUFOUS INDIAN WOODPECKER. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill one inch, stout, black ; plumage 

 in general dull rufous ; feathers of the hind head elongated into a 

 crest, standing out behind ; the head, and breast are plain ; all the 

 rest of the bird crossed with streaks of black, which are broadest on 

 the wings ; the tail marked with five or six curved bars of the same 

 on each side of the shaft, but not touching it, the ends of the feathers 

 much pointed, and black; legs ash-colour, claws black. 



The female has the head smooth, without any crest, otherwise 

 not unlike the male, but is rather smaller, and the black streaks 

 more narrow, and not so well defined ; irides in both brown ; round 

 the eyelids dusky brown. 



Inhabits India ; common also in Ceylon. This, as well as the 

 last, is like the Rufous Woodpecker in general markings, but is 

 probably a different species. Name in Ceylon Mal-kerala. 



28.— CRIMSON-RUMPED WOODPECKER. 



Picus Goertan, Ind. Orn. i. 236. Gm. Lin. i. 434. Gen. Zool. ix. 179. 

 Pic Goertan du Senegal, Buf. vii. 25. PL enl. 320. 

 Crimson-rumped Woodpecker, Gen. Syn. ii. 583. 



MUCH less than the Common Green Woodpecker. Bill lead- 

 colour; crown crimson ; upper parts of the body grey-brown, tinged 

 with grey, and spotted with dusky white on the wings ; beneath 

 yellowish grey ; rump of a fine red ; legs lead-colour. 



Inhabits Senegal, where it is called Goertan. 



